Ferndale girl, 14, hospitalized after whiskey-chugging sleepover

A 14-year-old Ferndale girl ended up in the hospital after police say she and two friends drank too much whiskey at a sleepover.

The three girls were together Friday at the house of one of the girls. All are 14 years old.

“The girls were upstairs and the parents were downstairs,” said Ferndale Police Sgt. Patrick Jones. “It turned out one of the two visiting girls had brought a bottle of Canadian Club whiskey and they drank the entire fifth within an hour.”

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Police said they were called to the house on East Breckenridge about 11:45 p.m. by the parents.

When officers arrived they found the girl who had to be hospitalized sitting in the living room vomiting on the floor, police said.

“She was so intoxicated she could not stay awake and an ambulance was called,” Jones said.

The girl had a blood-alcohol level of 0.13, nearly twice the limit for drunken driving in Michigan. The girl who lives at the house had a blood-alcohol level just below the state limit of 0.08. It is illegal for minors in the state to have any alcohol or to possess it.

The third girl at the sleepover fled the house before police arrived, though she has been identified.

Police said the parents didn’t know the girls were drinking and called after they found the girl getting sick in the living room, police said.

Officers decided to call an ambulance for the girl because they wanted to make sure she didn’t succumb to alcohol poisoning, Jones said.

All three girls may face possible charges in juvenile court. They are scheduled this week to be interviewed by the Ferndale police juvenile detective and could be charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol, a misdemeanor.

“A charge like that can affect their driving status when they do get a driver’s license,” Jones said.